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Pathshala enters its tenth year
The school of photography Pathshala, is entering its tenth year.
Greetings to all students, teachers and well-wishers who have journeyed
with us over the last nine years. An exhibition “Studying Life”
featuring the work of Pathshala students and alumni will mark the
beginning of our celebrations.
Pioneer playright and theatre person Atiqul Huque Chowdhury will
inaugurate the exhibition on 1st February 2008 at 5:00 pm at Drik
Gallery.The exhibition will continue till 15th February 2008 and will be open to
all from 3:00 pm till 8:00 pm.You are invited.
Inauguration date: 1 February 2008
Time: 5:00 pm
Exhibition duration: 1 February - 15 February 2008 (3-8 pm.
every day)
Venue: Drik Gallery, House 58, Road
15A (new), Dhanmondi Residential Area, Dhaka.
Programme:
1 February 2008
5:00 pm, Drik Gallery
Opening of photography exhibition “Studying Life”
2 February 2008
Pathshala Campus (16 Sukrabad, Panthapath)
3:00 pm: Certificate Distribution
3:45 pm: Discussion on Photography
4:30 pm: Portfolio Presentation
5:15 pm: Film Show
3 February 2008
Pathshala Campus (16 Sukrabad, Panthapath)
2:30 pm: Portfolio Presentation
6:30 pm: Songs by Prachyanat
8:30 pm: Dinner
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US Debut of Tahmina Anam
From SAJAforum, the newsy SAJA blog - new desi stuff daily:
http://www.sajaforum.org
Tahmima Anam is one of the few Bangladeshi writers to get a big U.S. debut novel. “A Golden Age” has been recently published to rave reviews in America and the U.K. (she’s one of five finalists for the Guardian First Book Award). Here’s an excerpt from a profile about her by Salil Tripathi in Tehelka:
While there have been three novels on the Bangladesh war written from an Indian perspective - Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, and Rohinton Mistry’s Such A Long Journey - where is the Bangladeshi voice that articulates the horrendous agony of that war, and the bittersweet ecstasy of that freedom?
Make way for Tahmima Anam, then. The remarkable thing about Anam’s novel, A Golden Age, which is set to be a trilogy on the Bengal century, is that she was born four years after Bangladesh’s independence. Anam comes from a politically active family - her father edits the Daily Star, and her mother runs a human rights NGO in Dhaka. As part of her PhD thesis in Harvard University’s anthropology department, she interviewed hundreds of people who had lived through the war as soldiers, survivors, victims - to piece together an engrossing narrative that tells, for the first time to an international audience, how Bangladesh saw that tragic year.
U.S. debut of Tahnima Anam
She is in the midst of a U.S. tour (details below) - including a reading tonight in NYC.
See more about the book, get the publicist’s contacts and post your comments at http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/books-tahmima-a.html
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 NEW YORK
McNally Robinson Bookstore
@ 7:00 pm, 52 Prince Street
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 SEATTLE
Elliot Bay Book Company
@ 7:00 pm, 1119 8th Avenue, Town Hall
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 SAN FRANCISCO
Books Inc.
@ 7:30 pm, 301 Castro St.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 SAN FRANCISCO
Book Passage
@ 1:00 pm, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Reader’s Books (Sonoma)
@ 7:30 pm, 127 E. Napa Street
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 MASSACHUSETTS
Odyssey Bookshop
@ 7:00 pm, 9 College Street, The Village Commons
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Bangladeshi Photographers Win Yet Again
G.M.B.Akash a student from Pathshala’s first batch wins first prize for his photo titled “Passengers without Ticket” in the prestigious Gordon Parks Photography Competition 2007. More work by Akash can be seen at www.majorityworld.com and www.gmb-akash.com.
Other winners include “A woman standing by her paraplegic husband” by Lisa Wiltse (2nd place)
“Touch of protection” by Olivier Asselin (3rd place)
“Loss” by Chris Zuppa (honorable mention)
Mom and me by Kenny Felt (honorable mention)
and “New Citizen” by Jim Gehrz (honorable mention)
More news on the contest available soon from www.gordonparkscenter.org The video of Chobi Mela IV can be seen at: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1213900621 The video “In Search of the Shade of the Banyan Tree” can be seen at: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1237905984 Thanks to Oliver and Angilee and UCLA International Institute for uploading the video, Asfia for the Banyan Tree song and to the large number of people who helped in the production of the videos.
Bangladeshi photographers have consistently shone internationally. Yet photography remains neglected by the Bangladeshi government. A bill passed in parliament in 1989, to open a department of photography in “Shilpakala Academy” the academy of fine and performing arts, has yet not been implemented. Even “Charukala Institute” the department of fine arts, lacks a photography course. Yet Dhaka is rapidly becoming one of the major capitals of photography and Chobi Mela, the festival of photography held in Dhaka is one of the major events in the Asian media calendar. It has often been the case that artists have only been recognised in our own soil once they have received international acclaim. Sadly, even outstanding international perfomance in the field of photography, does not appear to have woken up the fossils in the Bangladesh secretariat.
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Photographic Storytellers
MAKING CONNECTIONS: PHOTOGRAPHIC STORYTELLERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
SHAHIDUL ALAM, CHRIS RAINIER, AND THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY’S ALL ROADS AWARDEES
The National Geographic Society’s All Roads Film Project recognizes and supports indigenous and underrepresented storytellers from around the world who are documenting their changing cultures and communities through photography and film. For the third consecutive year of this popular program, we present talented artists from Israel, Kashmir, Lapland, Mongolia, Nigeria, and the United States who have been selected by the National Geographic Society to present their work and reflect on ways their images and stories make connections that help create a more just and beautiful world. The All Roads photographers will be joined by Chris Rainier of the National Geographic Society and photographer Shahidul Alam, media activist and founder of the Drik photo agency in Bangladesh.
2007 Awardees
Altaf Qadri (Kashmir)
Kashmir: Paradise in Pain
Oded Balilty (Israel)
Along the Lines
Akintunde Akinleye (Nigeria)
The Troubles of a Blessed Country
A Yin (China, Inner Mongolia)
Highland Mongolian Life
Munem Wasif of Pathshala, received an honourable mention for his photo essay “Belongings”
Monday, October 1, 2007
7:30pm
Kresge Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Doors open at 6:00pm. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.
Please forward this announcement to anyone who may find it of interest.
Click here for more information about this event.
UPCOMING AURORA FORUM PROGRAMS
An Evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass
Monday, October 8, 7:30pm in Memorial Auditorium
Free and Ticketed
>>ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED<<
For more information on these and other
Aurora Forum programs, please visit our website:
auroraforum.org
Aurora Forum at Stanford University
650.725.5633
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Tales From a Globalising World: Launch of World Tour
Ten photographers illustrate selected aspects of globalization in Asia, North America, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Their stories express a single subject that can be comprehended only in the light of its constant transformation.
Together they create a whole, which is brought together in the exhibition.
TALES FROM A GLOBALIZING WORLD is a collective project that draws its strength from its individual authors. By uniting diverse photographic perspectives and styles of expression, it combines various aspects of globalization into an image of the new reality that is shaping the world we live in.
Photographed by
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Ziyo Gafic, Philip Jones Griffiths, Tim Hetherington,
Thomas Kern, Bertien van Manen, Shehzad Noorani, Cristina Nuñez, Andreas
Seibert and Stephan Vanfleteren.
Conceived, curated and produced by
Daniel Schwartz
The show begins its international tour at Drik’s new gallery in Dhanmondi at 5:00 pm today (22nd September 2005) and will be the inaugural show at this exciting new venue. The exhibition will later go on to Cairo and Rome.
The guest of honour for the exhibition will be Professor Muzaffer Ahmad,
Trustee, Transparency International Bangladesh. Dr. Dora Rapold, the
honourable Ambassador of Switzerland in Bangladesh will be present as
the special guest.
The project is an initiative launched in 2002 by the Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation (SDC).
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Imaging Famine and Other Events
Born Aid 20. The Commission on Africa. Live 8. Make Poverty History. The G8 Summit in Gleneagles. We are witnessing renewed debate about global poverty, disasters and development, especially in Africa. Coming two decades after the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980's the time is ripe for a reconsideration of the power and purpose of disaster pictures given the way the images of the Ethiopian famine spawned the original Band Aid/Live Aid phenomenon. http://www.imaging-famine.org/ Imaging Famine is one of several intriguing events I’ll be involved with in September 2005. The event in New York is not public, so I’ve left out the details, but I will be there in case anyone wants to meet up. 5th and 6th September: Imaging Famine Conference The Newsroom. Guardian. London. UK contact: Dave Clark, Bolton University: dj at djclark.com http://www.imaging-famine.org/ *8th September: Panel Discussion: Imaging Development* *Open University Campus, **Milton Keynes**. **UK*** *contact: Helen Yanacopulos, Open University: H.Yanacopulos at open.ac.uk * *http://www.devstud.org.uk/Conference05/abstracts/PED.htm * 10th September: Symposium, A Critical Evaluation of Photographic Commissions Sunderland University. Sunderland. UK contact: Bas Vroege, Paradox: Ebv at paradox.nl http://www.theiprn.org/temp/media/pdf/folder.pdf 12th – 14th September: New York 17th and 19th September: 15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo. Brazil contact: Luciana Gomide, Video Brasil: *fcfcom at uol.com.br* www.videobrasil.org.br <http://www.videobrasil.org.br>** ** 22nd September: Launch of Internatioanal Touring Exhibition: Tales From a Globalising World Drik Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh contact: Rezaur Rahman, Drik: reza at drik.net http://www.foto8.com/reviews/V2N3/globalizing.html 24th September: National Geographic’s All Roads Film Festival Egyptian Theatre: Los Angeles. USA contact: Alexandra Nicholson, National Geographic: anichols at ngs.org http://www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads/schedules_la.html 26th September: Presentation: “In Search of the Shade of the Banyan Tree” UCLA. Los Angeles. USA contact: Angilee Shah: angshah.asiamedia at gmail.com 29th September: Conference: Free Media The Norwegian Institute of Journalism contact: Solberg Oona, MFA: oona.solberg at mfa.no http://www.ij.no/friemedier.htm It was Drik’s birthday yesterday! Sweet Sixteen! Best wishes, Shahidul ps: we’ve started a data entry unit and are looking for work. So if you have any ideas! any ideas…
